Improvement in breech-loaders



L. T. DELASSIZE.

Breech Loader.

Patented July 20, 1869.

einem sata @wat @mira L. T. DELSSIZE, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

Lette'l'sPatent No. 92,799, lated July 20, 1869.

*Meg- IMPROVEMENT IN '.BREECH-LOADIEIIRS.l

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom tt may concern Beit known' that I, L. T. DELASSIZE, of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fire- Arms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to make and use the same, reference being had to `the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in lire-arms, and consists in the combination and arrangement of parts for cooking the same, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings- Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section ofa gun, constructed according 'to my invention, the section being through :I: x of g. 2.

Figure 2 is across-section of iig. 1, through the line Figure 3 is a detached view of thefforked piece, which forms part of the lock.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Aisthe breech.

l5 is a ring that closes the joint of the breech and the barrel. i

C C represent a fillet to hermetically close, in a groove, the breech to the barrel, and prevent the escape of gas.

D is a thimble for containing the fulminate, and which receives the cartridge. An additional thi'mble is shown in fig. 4, detached, for adapting the gun to various uses,

E is the hall, in the. cartridge.

E' is the powder.

F represents the ful'minate that ignites the front portion of the powder.

Gis a section of 'the' bairel, thrown forward from the breech.

-H is a sector-pinion lever, which, operated with the rack i, causes the barrel to slide ou its stock and ways back and forth.

.l is the leverfand J is a button ou the lever. A

K represents sliding ways, on which the barrel slides inthe stockA L, and guides it to the breech.

N is the trigger. l

O is the main-spring'.

q is the hammer.

R is the piston, to which the needle It is attached.

S is a round spiral spiing, which, as soon as the barrel is thrown from the breech and the hammer is raised, forces back the piston by its recoil, and consequently draws the needle from the thimble..

M is a forked bar, pivoted to the rear end of the sliding ways K, and extending toward the rear of the stock, to embrace the lower end of hammer, in such a manner that the hooks o', upon the bar, shall catch over both-ends of the transverse pin p when thehammeris down.

.The ways are formed by a bar, K, slotted longituforward, to insert a cartridge, until the sorewrpin b strikes the forward end of the slot in the bar K, when .it carries the latter with it, and consequently the forked bar M, which in its turn pulls forwa'rd `the pin p, andvraises the hammer. l

The barrel is then thrown back into its place, to enclose the cartridge, and, when the' pin b strikes the -oppositeendof the slot in the barK, the latter is pushed back until it is arrested by the shoulder c ot' the breech.

Just before it reaches this point, however, the hooks o' clear the pin p upon the hammer, to Aenable the latter to be operated, and are thrown upward against the shoulder s of the breech by the action of the spring a: upon the bar M.

'In this manner the hammer is .cocked bythe bar M, and the latter moved out of the path of the pin p to permit the -discharge of the gun.

v By pressing on the trigger, the hammer strikes the piston R, which drives the needle through the powder t-ill it reaches the fulminateand ignites the charge.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lett-ers Patent The combination of the forked bar M, having' the hooks' o', the spring x, and pin p, with the slotted sliding bar K, and hammer g, all arranged and operatingv as described, for thel purpose specified..

The above specification of my invention signed by me; this day of 1869.

' LS. T. DELASSIZE.

Witnesses:

Ls. PEssAU,

A. A. LAFFER'RANDERIE. 

